MarkJ

Here is the kit. I will need to change the front and rear to have it pass as a 74. I will also need to make new bumpers. I know I could have gotten a 74 kit, maybe if I could have found one, and pay big bucks for it, and I know a 74 Camaro resin is available, but its more fun to do it this way. I stole the engine out of this kit for a 65 Chevelle I built because it came with a big block and I needed a small block for the Chevelle. I bought a 70 Corvette kit to get a small block for this build. I will use the big block from the Chevelle kit for the 70 Corvette whenever I build it.

Awesome build, Dan. Everything about this model looks great. I appreciate that you kept the kit wheels and tires. When people use the 1/24 scale 57through 59 ppp wheels and tires, the model ends up looking just not quite right when compared to reference pictures of the real cars. Has that monster truck look about it.

Wow, Awesome job pairing the resin body to the Revell gen 6 kit. Looks like you had bought a Camaro kit. Everything is top notch, paint , stance , details , decal work. Who made the resin body and do they make a mustang too? Again, an excellent job on this one. Oh yes, and the photography is also very impressive.

For what iv'e seen and heard about Wyoming, it is especially beautiful this time of year. if I were younger and still worked full time and lived up there, I would be doing the same thing your doing. Sadly for us this begins the worst time of the year for us weatherwize. Its only nice in the mornings and some time in the evenings to go outside and we spend a lot of our time tracking hurricanes and hoping heavy thunderstorms and tornados don't take us out. Our best months are November thru April.Take care and the modeling can wait for you.

Mike, I dont care for the molowtow pens because they take forever to dry and even when you touch it after a few days it dulls badly. This testors pen which I haven't used yet, looks like it gives amazing results. I will ask the guy if I can post a picture of one of his builds here so you can see what he's talking about.

Mike, where did you order the bmf from? I ordered some from micro mark and it did not stick very well either. I then ordered some from the actual guy that makes the stuff and it worked, but not as good as it did a few years ago. Have you looked into the new testors paint pens? A guy at short track models forum showed me some of his work using the pen and it really looks good. If I can find a silver testors pen, I'm going to try that on my next build. i hate using bmf even when it sticks. all that trimming is maddening.

Josh, how's this one coming? Just realized I hadn't seen an update in a while.

Coming along nicely. Engine looks topnotch.

Good , I'm looking forward to the finish line on this one. Its going to be great.

if you have to, just make a firewall with sheet styrene. i'm sure you can figure it out.

Thanks guys, From that shot its hard to see the right taillight lenses, but they are in there.

I forgot to post a rea shot of the model

Awesome job. Clean work and excellent paint.

Body looks perfect now. Interior is clean and awesome too. This is going to be one fine model.

Thanks guys. I really appreciate the reply's.

Sounds like a plan , Mike. The future wont give you any problems as far as wrinkling goes. i'm sure it will turn out awesome, just like all your builds . Just like that Beautiful black Mustang.

Thanks, Mike. I too enjoyed our discussions during the wip. You added clarity to some issues I was having during the build. Knowing that you were having problems with the fit on your awesome Corvette build, made me realize it was a kit issue. Thanks again for the moral support.

The other picture is my favorite one of this car.

I took some pictures of the pages of the old scrap book that gave me inspiration that I wanted to share and also a color picture of the car that I could not find. I needed to know what color the headlight covers were and it also let me know that the tires were white outline and lettered, not gold like I assumed they were. I want to thank and give kudos to the person who shared the photo with me, but he may not want to be revealed. Just know that he is an awesome builder of these kind of cars and we will just leave it as that. He knows who he is, and thanks again. I really appreciated the photo you shared .

Finally finished over in the under glass category of this kind of vehicle.

Finally finished after 231.5 hours . I always wanted to do this build since I was a 13 year old kid. I was into auto racing big time, and about the only source I had for news and pictures were magazines. I had a subscription to Sports Car Graphic, Motor Trend and Car and Driver. Whenever there was anything in a magazine about racing , I would cut it out and put the pictures and story in 2 scrap books. One for Stock car racing and one for Sports car racing and Indy cars. I still have the scrap books today but they are falling apart from age. I just happened to be thumbing through the sports car scrap book and spotted the story about Roger Penske's victory at the Nassau Tourist Trophy race in the Bahamas in 1964. His Grand Sport looked so awesome, I knew I had to finally build a replica of it. Turns out the race was a battle between him and Ken Miles of "Ford vs. Ferrari" fame. Mile's 390 Cobra could pull away from Penske in the straights but Penske's Grand sport would catch up in the turns. Miles Cobra finally blew up trying to stay ahead of the powerful and nimble Corvette. I learned alot about the car. It had a 377 cubic inch all aluminum engine with 4 weber side draft carbs and hemi heads . It basically was a 327 stroked a quarter of an inch to get to 377. it pumped out 485 horsepower. This is an amt kit because I did not know there was a much better kit, until I started the build and was informed of this, so I had to do a lot of scratch building. The wip is over in the wip forum for this forum category under 1964 scca corvette if you want to see how it came together.

Just do the 2400 grit to 12000 grit polishing deal and you will have a mirror like finish. Then finish with good old future or whatever they call it now a days and it will be awesome.

As of 4:20 this afternoon the build part of the model is complete. I finally got the hood to fit almost flush but no way to make it perfect. All that's left is decalling and futuring. Well, its not really future anymore, but I hear its the same stuff. Hopefully I can get it finished up Monday and do the final photos on Tuesday and get them posted up on Wednesday. i

Thanks, guys. I got the tires finished and mounted and have it sitting flat and it actually looks better then I thought it would. I just need to add the park lamps, a fine mesh grille screen , the knock offs on the wheels, the headlamp covers and a lot of detail touching up here and there. Oh yes, I think I figured out how to get the hood more flush. I always make a list of things that have to be done in a builders log book I keep. I probably would have forgot the park lamps if I didnt keep a checklist going. Shouldn't be too much longer.

I finally got the body, interior and frame together. But being an amt model, where nothing really fits that well , you have to put a slight bend in the body to attach it to the frame. this caused a hood that fit before not to be flush any more. Now I need to figure out a way to make it more flush. I hate a hood that does not fit well. I was happy to see that the white stripe decals I made for the tires came out nicely. As soon as I finish the tires I will get them installed and then I can decal and future. Be glad to get this one done.